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P. EVERITT.

RECORDER FOR WBIGHING MACHINES.

LL Patented Feb. 9, 1886.

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(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

P. EVERITT.

RECORDER FOR WEIGHING MACHINES.

, Patented Feb.- 9, 1886.

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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PEROIVAL EVER-1T1, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

RECORDER FOR WEIGHING-MACHINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 336,043,61ated February 9,1886.

Application filed November 4,1885. Serial No. 181,841. (No model.) Patented in England December 18, 1684, No. 16,433; in France March 26, 1885, No. 167,904; in Belgium April 4, 1885, No. 68,426; in Victoria May 4, 1885, No. 4,045; in South Australia May 8, 1885, No. 554; in Tasmania May 9, 1885, No. 358; in New Zealand May 14, 1885, No. 1,436; in Queensland June 2, 1885, No. 20 in India June 26, 1885, No. in Italy June 30, 1885, XIX, 18,806, and XXXVI, 124; in New South Wales July 7, 1885, No. 6,567; in Austria-Hungary July 14, 1885, No. 14,102, and No. 36,568; in Spain August 3, 1885, Ne. 1,032/4,966, and in Lnxemburg October To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PEROIVAL Evmerrr, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at London, England, have invented new and useful Improvements in YVeighing-Machines, (for which I have obtained patents in the following countries, m'delicet: in Great Britain, No. 16,433, dated December 13, 1884; in France, No. 167 ,904, dated March 26, 1885 in Belgium, No. 68, 126, dated April 4, 1885; in Tasmania, No. 358, dated May 9, 1885; in India, No. 70, dated June 26, 1885; in Italy, XIX, 18,206, and XXXVI, 124, dated June 30, 1885, and Letters of Registration in New South Wales, No. 6,567, dated July 7, 1885,) of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to modifications or improvements in the new kind of weighingmachine for which I made application for a patent on March 31, 1885, Serial No. 160,80d; and the present invention consists in the adaptation of the machine to operate in such a manner that the pulling out of a slide or drawer will deliver a ticket with the weight of the body being weighed, printed, or impressed thereon.

In carrying out my present improvements I construct the machine with a platform 01' other suitable device for receiving the body to be weighed, the platform communicating by any known arrangements of lever or levers with a counterpoise consisting of weights or springs, or weight and spring combined. I preferably use a weighted counterbalanced arm projecting from a pivoted spindle. The pivoted spindle, communicating by means of suitable mechanism with the platform, is caused to rotate on its axis when a body to be weighed is placed on the platform, and the said movement of the spindle will partly rotate the weighted arm until it cou nterbalances the body to be weighed, all substantially as described in the specification of my said former application.

The weighted arm or equivalent counterpoise is provided with gearing or other suitable mechanism to operate an adjustable arrangement of printing-type inside the apparatus. The arrangement of printing type may consist of disks having the type on their peripheries; or any other arrangement of adj ustable type may be used.

Inside the apparatus I place a number of cards adjacent to the printing-type. The card nearest to the type may be delivered to the outside of the machine by means of a slide or drawer actuated by hand from the outside, the said slide or drawer having a projection or other device for withdrawing the card. The slide or drawer communicates by means of suitable mechanism with the printing de vice, by which means on the outward motion of the slide or drawer, before the projection on the same pushes out the card, the type is caused to come into contact with the nearest card and imprint or impress the said card with the weight of the body being weighed, the adjustment of the type for this purpose having been effected by the movement of the weighted arm or equivalent counterpoise. As'

the slide or drawer is continued to be pulled out, the card recedes from the type, and the projection on the slide or drawer comes in contact with the printed card which is there by delivered outside the apparatus.

In order to cnablemy invention to be fully u11derstood,Iwill proceed todescribe the same by reference to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a vertical section of part of a weighingmachine constructed according to the present invention, the section being taken on the line I J of Fig. 2, which is a vertical section on line K L of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a vertical section on line M N of Fig. 1, and Fig. 4c is a plan of Fig. 3.

The same letters in all the figures represent the same or similar parts.

The mechanism for weighing a body placed on the platform of the machine is similar to that described and shown in my said former specification.

k is the steel ribbonwhich connects the counterpoise through other mechanism with the platform. Zis the weighted arm projecting from the pivoted spindle n, which arm, to-

gether with a weight attached to the. end of the cord p, forms the counterpois'e. qis the pulley fixed to the spi over which the cord 1) passes.

r is the toothed quadrant fixed to the spindle n, and s is the pinion fixed upon the indexarbor t, and which is operated by said quadrant; but, instead of the quadrant r and pin-- ion s operating an indicating device, as in my aforesaid application, I cause them to operate an adjustable set of printing-type for printing the weight on tickets.

- t is the disk, which is fixed on the arbor t, and having on its periphery a series of type. The said disk with its type is so arranged that the type. representing the weight of the bod-y on'the platform shall be brought by the quadrant 1 and pinion 8 under the lowermost of a pile of cards or tickets, a, contained in a box, 1;, having a vertical sliding motion in guides to.

m w are wheels or rollers moving over the guides 10, for assisting the said sliding motion of the box o. The bottom card or ticket rests on. a flange or ledge, g, on two sides of thebox at the bottom thereof. The rest of the bottom of the box is open.

a is the slide or drawer, which is formed with an opening, a, therein.

6 is the projection on the slide or drawer a, which projection, when the slide or drawer is drawn out by means of its handle passes between the flanges or ledges y and comes in contact with the lowermost card and forces it forward, so as to deliver it outside the appa-' ratus.

(Z d are rollers on the card or ticket box 1), which rollers work on the sides of the slide or drawer and support the card or ticket box.

6 e are depressions in the sides of the slide or drawer, in which depressions the rollers d enter as the slide or drawer is pulled out, whereby the box '1) is lowered onto the typedisk t, so as to print the lowermost card or ticket. In order to prevent the card or ticket box 11 from being again lowered when the slide or drawer z is pushed back into the apparatus, I provide a tumbling lever, f pivoted to the support or slide to the drawer,

ndle n and and working between two stops, hilfi.

i is a pin or projection on the box 2;, under which pin the tumbling lever f is moved to support the box while the drawer is pushed inward. v

j is a spring catch or finger, which, when the slide or drawer a has been almost completely opened, comes against the lever f and pushes it under the pin or projection t and against the front projection, If. As the slide or drawer is continued to be pulled out the spring-catchy will turn on its pivot is" and be forced past the lever f As the slide or drawerz is pushed back within the apparatus the spring-catch j will easily turn on its pivot and pass the lever f without removing it from its positionunder the pin or projection 1'. As'the slide or drawer a -is completely closed. a projection, l thereon comes against the front edge of 'the lever f and forces it from under the pin or projection i into the position shown in Fig. 3.

m is a weight placed on the top of the pile of cards or-tickets, in order to insure thembeing presented at the bottom of the box 12 in proper position to be printed on and delivered.

n is an endless band of carbon paper or the like, which passes round four pulleys, o 0 and over the periphery of the type-disk t immediately under the pile of cards or tick-- ets a, so as to print the bottom card when the box a is lowered. In order to communi- By this arrangement when a body to be weighed is placed upon the platform of the machine the type-disk i will rotate until the type representing the weight of the said body comes immediately under the card or ticket box. 12. If the slide or drawer 2 be then drawn out, the rollers d entering the depressions 6, will cause the card or ticket box 0 to be lowered, and the lowermost card or ticket will be pressed upon the carbon paper n and type-disk i. As the'slide or drawer is continued to be drawn out the card-box o is raised from the type-disk t, and the projection I) on the slide or drawer comes'against the edge of the printed card and delivers it outside the apparatus.

The mechanism for delivering and printing tickets with the weight thereon, as hereinbefore described and shown, can be arranged so that the slide or drawer when pushed into the apparatus shall be automatically held fast by a tumbler bolt or catch or other suitable device, the said bolt or catch communicating by means of levers or other suitable mechanism with a receptacle for a coin, which coin being placed therein will counterbalance or otherwise release the bolt or catch, and the slide or drawer can then be pulled out.

Instead of employing a system of weights for weighing the body, as hereinbefore described and shown, I can make use of aspring for this purpose,which would be connected by suitable mechanism with theindicating device or with the printing mechanism.

Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is- 1. In a weighing-machine, the combination of a slide or drawer, a movable ticket or card ICC wheel or disk It, card-box for holding a set of gravitating cards or tickets, and a carbon or similar paper,whereby the weight of the per son or body being weighed may be printed 01' impressed, substantially as set forth.

PERGIYAL EVERITT.

Yi itnesses:

G. F. REDFERN; F. W, PRICE. 

